CONSERVATIVE BUDGET AMENDMENT 6TH MARCH 2024 Wednesday, 6 March, 2024 Amend recommendation 5 by adding the following wording: “subject to the following amendment: Use £1,001,000 from the “For use in future years’ budgets” on a one-off basis to: Provide a 1% Council Tax rebate to all Band A-E Council Taxpayers in LB Merton. After Recommendation 5 to add: Recommendation 6: To request Cabinet to prepare future budgets on the basis of the following principles: To... Articles
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Fortnightly Bin Collections - Letter to Wimbledon Guardian 14th August 2016 A local resident wrote to the Wimbledon Guardian about Merton's Labour-run council scrapping weekly bin collections. Below is the reply of Councillor Daniel... Local News
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